Subject: (exotica) [obits] John Berry,Hazel Frederick
Date: 01 Dec 1999 10:01:12 -0500
The Associated Press
Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1999; 6:35 a.m. EST
John Berry
PARIS (AP) û John Berry, the American filmmaker who was blacklisted in the 1950s after making a documentary in support of the Hollywood 10, died Monday. He was 82.
Berry left the United States for France after making "The Hollywood Ten," a documentary supporting American directors accused of being members of the Communist Party.
Embraced by the French film establishment, Berry made several commercial successes, including "Ca Va Barder" (Things are Going to Get Tough) starring Eddie Constantine. He also worked in London as a theater director.
He returned to the United States in 1974 to make the movie "Claudine." His other films included "Oh Que Mambo", "Maya", "Thieves" and "The Bad News Bears Go To Japan" in 1978.
See also: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-j-berry.html
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) û Hazel Frederick, the woman whose quizzical look was accidentally preserved for TV audiences as Mary Tyler Moore tossed her beret into the air, died Sunday. She was 91.
Frederick had been shopping in downtown Minneapolis one day in 1969 when a camera crew filmed Moore for the opening of the old "Mary Tyler Moore Show."
Frederick's puzzled reaction was caught on film as she stood in the background, noticeable in a green coat with fur collar and matching scarf.
``That show was broadcast to every state in America and around the world. Everybody wondered: Who was that lady in the background? And, of course, we all knew,'' said Frederick's daughter, Vivian Oliver.
A neighbor spotted Frederick's brief appearance on the show's first episode and phoned Oliver, who waited a week to see the second episode. Sure enough, there was her mother.
``So I called her. `Mom! You're on Mary Tyler Moore. Watch it next week,''' Oliver said. ``Then we had to call the rest of the kids.''
But Frederick's identity remained a mystery to nearly everyone else until 1996, when Moore was in the area for a book signing.
Moore invited Frederick to join her on stage and introduced her to 5,000 people as ``my co-star.''
Then they both signed autographs.
``She never got a big head about it,'' Oliver said.
The 12/1/99 Variety obits are at: http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117758463
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jonathan richardson <jonny_yuma@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Wondering- Are there any other artists that we talk about here on the list that have been nominated for a grammy, or won for that matter. Baxter perhaps, so many great film scores, perhaps Esquivel, maybe Denny? anyone know of any?
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I responded to this yesterday but the post has "gone missing." Apologies if it turns up and gets posted twice.
Anyway, if I recall what I said (and yesterday is a long time ago sometimes), it was that the best site for Grammy info is the official search site at:
http://www.grammy.com/awards/search.php3
You can enter a name and see if you get a hit. Responses are in the form:
GRAMMY Winner Jo Stafford & Paul Weston: Artists.
Genre Comedy
GRAMMY Category Best Comedy Performance (Musical)
Year 1960 - 3rd Annual GRAMMY Awards
Title of the Work Jonathan And Darlene Edwards In Paris
Artist Performing Work Jo Stafford, Paul Weston
The database only has winners -- the other nominees aren't listed.
Just for grins, y'all should also browse the Grammy Gateway:
http://www.grammy.com/gateway/index.html
and especially the Grammy Web Resources page:
http://www.grammy.com/gateway/gatewaylinks.html
-Lou
lousmith@pipeline.com
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> Saw a wonderful concert last night, actually more of a variety show. The Tiger Lillies, an English Trio who have been existing for 9 years and have 7 albums out so far.
Yes, I'm jealous, I'll admit it!
I tried to get tix during their NY City run with Shockheaded Peter( aka The Struwwelpeter), but the run was completely sold out. I really wanted to subject my 9 year old daughter to their unique vileness! Instead we had to settle for the inferior Sleepy Hollow...
This is a site for the show:
http://www.shockheadedpeter.com/
SHOCKHEADED PETER - A Junk Opera
Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann, a Frankfurt 'medical man of the lunatic asylum', wrote and illustrated The Struwwelpeter (ShockHeaded Peter) more than 150 years ago because he couldn't find anything on the shelves to fire the imagination of his children.
Tiger Lilly Martyn Jacques, a Waterloo falsetto, began to sing it last year because it sounded good within his curious repertoire of modern city ballads. Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott, rough mountebanks of improbable theatre, dreamt up a way of making the songs work in the midst of a series of trapdoors, hidden passages and unexpected events.
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If you haven't discovered the Tiger Lillies yet, you can get a good sense of them at their site:
http://www.tigerlillies.com/system/index.html
-Lou
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> In a message dated 12/2/99 8:10:10 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>Vastly underated as an artist in my opinion. He was/is a genius and should have been awarded one at least once in his life.
It's still not too late, Jason. He's got another shot at it when the bio-pic is released and when (I won't say "if") the stuff he's been working on for the last few years gets recorded and released. Perhaps Br. Cleve can give us an update on how those projects are progressing.
Anyone know how to stuff a wild grammy vote box?
-Lou
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I really want to see that show too. I grew up with this "Struwwelpeter"-book, it was one of the 3 most poular children's books in Germany and my mom keeps telling me how much I cried from the cruel stories of cut-off fingers and burnt children when she was reading it to me. This kind of "If you don't behave the bad black man comes and gets
you"-"education" is called "black education" today and I can easily understand why a group like the Tigerlillies, with a strong fascination for the dark things, chooses a book like that to inspire a show from, although I'm surprised, that English blokes pick something from Germany at all. But "Struwwelpeter" was a worldwide success, at least then,
in the 19th century.
On that homepage is a link to the on-line version of the entire book with illustrations and German AND English lyrics... (rhymes, Mimi!)
Mo
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NEW YORK ûû Joey Adams, the veteran funnyman and syndicated comedy columnist whose prolific career covered everything from vaudeville to the Catskills to television, died Thursday. He was 88.
Adams' column of jokes appeared daily in the New York Post.
His legacy includes, according to his "Who's Who" entry, 23 books û everything from his 1946 "From Gags to Riches" through his 1987 "The Roast of the Town."
In addition to his books and his newspaper column (dubbed "Just For
Laughs"), he appeared in motion pictures ("Ringside" in 1945), on stage ("Guys and Dolls" in 1960), and hosted various radio and TV programs. He was a frequent guest on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "The Jackie Gleason Show."
Adams also worked extensively with the March of Dimes, and received a variety of humanitarian awards.
Dorothy Allison
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) û Dorothy Allison, a renowned police psychic who helped locate the hideouts of Patty Hearst's kidnappers and later gave an accurate description of "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz, died Wednesday of heart failure. She was 74.
Ms. Allison located two hideouts where the Hearst kidnappers stayed in 1974, and correctly predicted that Ms. Hearst would rob a bank with her kidnappers.
She also correctly said Berkowitz would be captured with a traffic ticket.
In 1980, when she went to Atlanta to consult on the mass killings of children, she guaranteed the killer wouldn't hurt any more children, bared her throat to TV cameras and dared the killer to strangle her.
Ms. Allison never took money for the more than 5,000 cases she worked on, although she was paid to make appearances on some TV shows.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) û Charlie Byrd, who fused Latin, classical, and jazz styles and was considered one of the world's most versatile guitarists, died Thursday of cancer. He was 74.
During a career that spanned five decades, Byrd recorded more than 100 albums, one as recently as September. Many of those recordings were with his Charlie Byrd Trio, which included his brother, Joe Byrd, on bass.
Byrd might be best known for his influence on Brazilian jazz.
He was impressed with Brazilian music during a State Department-sponsored South American concert tour in 1961 and saw the potential for using the samba rhythm in conjunction with jazz improvisation.
His 1963 collaboration with Stan Getz, "Jazz Samba," is credited with launching a bossa nova craze in the United States.
Byrd grew up in Virginia and learned guitar from his father, a mandolin player. He was inspired to study jazz while stationed in Paris in 1945, and returned to New York to study jazz theory and composition.
He added classical guitar to his repertoire after moving to Washington, D.C., in 1950, and he traveled to Italy in 1954 to study by invitation with the great Spanish classical guitarist Andres Segovia.
see http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=10:04:31|AM&p=amg&sql=B6220
Mike Ockrent
NEW YORK (AP) û Mike Ockrent, director of the long-running musicals "Me and My Girl" and "Crazy for You," died Thursday of acute leukemia. He was 53.
He first directed "Me and My Girl," in London in 1985. "Me and My Girl" opened a year later on Broadway where it won Tonys for its stars Robert Lindsay and Maryann Plunkett and ran for more than three years.
Among his other London successes were the comedy "Once a Catholic" and the London production of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."
In New York, Ockrent also directed "Rowan Atkinson at the Atkinson," "Big," a concert version of "King David" by Elton John and Tim Rice, and a musical adaptation of "A Christmas Carol," which is an annual production at Madison Square Garden.
At the time of his death, Ockrent was preparing a musical version of the movie "The Night They Raided Minsky's," which is scheduled to open in Los Angeles next summer.
Gene Rayburn
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) û Gene Rayburn, the jocular host who winked at double entendres during TV's popular "Match Game," died Monday of congestive heart failure. He was 81.
The "Match Game" was the top game show during much of the 1970s. Contestants would try to match answers to nonsense questions with a panel of celebrities; the references were often vaguely naughty for daytime TV.
Rayburn was nominated for five Daytime Emmy awards. He also invented the long thin microphone that he carried on the show.
Born Dec. 22, 1917, in Christopher, Ill., Rayburn initially came to New York City to become an opera singer. After World War II, he became a disc jockey instead, and the "Rayburn & Finch" show with partner Dee Finch on WNEW helped popularize the idea of morning drive time.
Moving into TV, he was the sidekick to Steve Allen on NBC's "Tonight" show.
He acted in live dramas on "Kraft Theatre" and "Robert Montgomery Presents" and worked for many years in summer stock theater.
His wife, Helen, who appeared with Rayburn on the game show "Tattletales," died in 1996.
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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Don "Sugarcane" Harris,Charlie Byrd
Date: 03 Dec 1999 13:04:42 -0500
From today's L.A. Times:
Don 'Sugarcane' Harris; Pioneering Rock Violinist
By RICHARD CROMELIN, Times Staff Writer
Don "Sugarcane" Harris, a pioneering rock violinist who played with
artists ranging from Little Richard to Frank Zappa to John Mayall, died last week. He was 61.
Harris' body was discovered Tuesday night in the room he rented in
South-Central Los Angeles. His longtime musical partner Dewey Terry said he died of natural causes after a long struggle with pulmonary disease. The Pasadena native's career began with doo-wop and rhythm and blues groups and went on to encompass early rock 'n' roll, jazz and underground rock.
"He really put rock 'n' roll violin on the map, and I think he's still
probably the best rock 'n' roll violinist there's ever been, Papa John
Creach notwithstanding," musicologist Barry Hansen, a.k.a. radio
personality Dr. Demento, said Thursday.
Harris, who was given his nickname by bandleader Johnny Otis, started
out in the doo-wop group the Squires, which included his childhood
friend Terry. The two began playing rock 'n' roll in 1956 as Don &
Dewey. Signed to the Los Angeles label Specialty Records, home of Little Richard and Lloyd Price, they wrote and recorded a series of singles that included "Justine," "Farmer John," "Big Boy Pete" and "I'm Leaving It All Up to You."
None were nationally successful, but versions of the songs recorded
later by the Olympics, the Premiers, Dale & Grace and the Righteous
Brothers became hits. In addition, Harris and Terry played in Little
Richard's backing band on tour in Europe, along with a young guitarist
named Jimi Hendrix.
The Beatles-led British invasion dried things up for groups such as Don & Dewey, who went their separate ways in the mid-1960s. Later in the decade, Harris found an unlikely niche, contributing to four albums by rock renegade Zappa and then joining English rock-blues founding father Mayall. He also recorded his own albums of jazz-influenced improvisation, and in the early 1970s with another Mayall sideman, guitarist Harvey Mandel, in the blues-rock group Pure Food and Drug Act. "As a violin player, he really was in a category all of his own," Mayall said this week.
"He played with an aggressive, electronic [style], the same sort of
vitality that an electric guitar would have."
Harris also contended with a drug habit for much of his career.
"He had a wonderful sense of humor, a very gentle sort of person," said Mayall, who had sought Harris out after being impressed by his playing on the Don & Dewey single "Stretchin' Out."
"The only thing that stood in his way was his unreliability with the
drug thing, which was sort of his downfall," Mayall added. "Occasionally he would disappear. You just had to take that as it came. . . . He never had a phone number. You usually had to leave a message for Dewey's mother or something like that and somehow the word would get back and he'd call in."
Harris and Terry got back together in 1975 and played together until a
year ago, when Harris' health declined. Terry had made new recordings of the duo in recent years in his home studio, but none have been released.
Harris, who is divorced, is survived by a daughter and two sons.
LOS ANGELES, Dec 2 (AFP) - Don "Sugarcane" Harris, a pioneering
jazz, blues and rock violinist, has died, a longtime collaborator
and friend said. He was 61.
Harris, who played with John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke and Frank
Zappa, among others, was found dead in his apartment by his landlord
on Wednesday night, Dewey Terry said.
He had been ill with a pulmonary disease for the last couple of
years, said Terry, who wrote most of the hits they had together.
In 1956 the two formed the Don and Dewey duo, writing and
performing songs such as "Coco Joe," "Justine," "Farmer John," "Big
Boy Pete" and "I'm Leaving You." Donny Osmond, Neil Young and the
Premieres covered some of their songs.
Harris was trained as a classical violinist. His talent for
improvisation attracted the attention of rock promoters, and he soon
found himself playing alongside Hooker, Zappa and Johnny Otis.
"The original American music was created by us way back, along
with Little Richard and Elvis Presley," Terry said. "I've been doing
a lot of crying."
In the 1970s, Harris enjoyed a resurgence in popularity when he
performed with the late Zappa at the old Ash Grove club in Los
Angeles. Zappa also used him on his records.
"He had classical technique, but blues and jazz sensibilities
underlying it all," said Nigey Lennon, who wrote a book about
Zappa.
"He seemed to have the best of all worlds, playing in his own
unique style. I've never heard anything like him before or since."
Terry said he and Harris performed together until Harris became
too ill to work. They played mostly in England and France, where
they were better known in recent years than in the United States.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Legendary jazz guitarist and composer Charlie Byrd died Thursday of cancer at his home in Annapolis, Md., at the age of 74.
Byrd died with family members at his side, including his wife Becky, a registered nurse, and his brother Joe, who played bass in the Charlie Byrd Trio for some 40 years.
Joe Byrd's wife, Elena, who was also Charlie Byrd's attorney, told United Press International that Byrd played his last professional date on Sept. 18 at the King of France Tavern in Annapolis, where he played frequently since he headlined the club's opening night in 1973.
Elena Byrd also said Byrd recently completed work on a new CD, a tribute to legendary jazz trumpeter-singer Louis Armstrong that is
scheduled to be released in January.
Charlie Byrd was born in Suffolk, Va., on Sept. 16, 1925. At 10, he started taking guitar lessons from his father.
He played at high school dances and went on to study at what is now Virginia Tech University.
Byrd was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943 and saw combat in Europe. After the war, he performed for troops in a Special Services band.
While stationed in Paris, Byrd met and played with guitarist Django Reinhardt. The experience inspired him to study jazz theory and
composition at Harnett National Music School in New York City.
Byrd was already an established figure on the East Coast jazz scene when he went to Italy in 1954 to study with one of the guitar's all-time masters, Andres Segovia.
He operated his own club, the Showboat, in Washington, D.C. from 1957-66, and was named Downbeat magazine's new artist of the year in 1959.
Byrd achieved major stardom in the early '60s when -- by himself and with saxophonist Stan Getz -- he introduced American audiences to the bossa nova beat of Brazilian jazz, with such hits as ``One Note Samba,''``Desafinado'' and ``Meditation.''
Byrd appeared often with symphony orchestras, including the National, Baltimore and Minnesota Symphonies. In 1973 he published a book, ``Charlie Byrd's Melodic Method for Guitar.''
Byrd recorded more than 100 albums, including ``Latin Byrd'' and ``Byrd at the Gate,'' a mainstream jazz session with trumpeter Clark Terry.
He was first diagnosed with bladder cancer 20 years ago. Elena Byrd says he recovered from the disease, but was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1990 and had part of a lung removed.
She said Byrd knew in late September that his condition was terminal and described the last three weeks as a time of ``intense family togetherness'' -- with Joe and another brother, Jack, playing music at his bedside.
``I think he would have liked to stay a lot longer,'' she said. ``He was only 74, but that's not to say that he wasn't brave and accepting.''
A musical memorial service is scheduled for Dec. 11 at the First Unitarian Church in Annapolis.
A family memorial service is planned for a later date in Chuckatuck, Va., where Byrd's ashes will be interred at Oakland Christian Church cemetery.
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> I really want to see that show too. I grew up with this "Struwwelpeter"-book, it was one of the 3 most poular children's books in Germany and my mom keeps telling me how much I cried from the cruel s> you"-"education" is called "black education" today and I can easily understand why a group like the Tigerlillies, with a strong fascination for the dark things, chooses a book
like that to inspire a > in the 19th century.
>... I can easily
> understand why a group like the Tigerlillies, with a strong
> fascination for the dark things, chooses a book like that to inspire
> a show from, although I'm surprised, that English blokes pick
> something from Germany
I'm trying to figure out that whole dark side of the musical spectrum
in the UK... Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Karl Blake, Danielle
Dax, etc. and where these inspirations come from, though England
has quite a "gothic" past too so... Its funny that I stumbled on the
Tiger Lillies some weeks back during a search for Karl Blake's group
The Shock Headed Peters! After visiting Prague, I could instantly
visualize the influence of this place and culture on many children's
fairy tales. I believe Cinderella's castle in Disneyland is a copy
of or at least inspired by a German castle? I'd take it as a
compliment to the German imagination Moritz!
On a more techical note... is it just me (I'm on digest format)
but it seems that many of the messages that come from Moritz,
have extraordinarily long lines. Is this coming from Moritz (I know
he's a Mac user), the exotca server, or is something in my own mail
reader. It's more a nuisance in replying as the line clips off at a
certain point. I get this same thing happening from time to time
with other e-mails so I'd be happy to understand the cause.
Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
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> I'm trying to figure out that whole dark side of the musical spectrum
> in the UK... Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Karl Blake, Danielle
> Dax, etc. and where these inspirations come from, though England
> has quite a "gothic" past too so... Its funny that I stumbled on the
> Tiger Lillies some weeks back during a search for Karl Blake's group
> The Shock Headed Peters! After visiting Prague, I could instantly
> visualize the influence of this place and culture on many children's
> fairy tales. I believe Cinderella's castle in Disneyland is a copy
> of or at least inspired by a German castle? I'd take it as a
> compliment to the German imagination Moritz!
I guess when you go into Cabaret, you can't escape certain German influences mainly stemming from the 20s and 30s. Listening to the Tiger Lillies CD at home today was a bit disappointing although I had kind of expected it would happen. On a sound medium the songs should be produced much bigger and there should be less elements of Cabaret and maybe more jazzy ones.
Cinderella Castle is taken from Schloss Neuschwanstein built by the Bavarian camp king Ludwig the 2nd who never really lived there, because he mysteriously died before. You can find a link on the Munich page of my homepage.
http://moritzR.de
Mo
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So, we all know that WFMU rules, both on air and on line ( http://wfmu.org ),
but I think even 'FMU partisans (like myself) have to admit that one of the best shows broadcast in the New York City area is David Garland's Spinning On Air.
Garland has a great home page at http://3garlands.com , and even better, he now has several of his SOA shows archived in realaudio.
of the Standard Operations Procedures for the Disneyland Enchanted Tiki Rooms. These SOP's are used in the training and orientation of new Hosts and Hostesses for the attraction. These SOPs were mostly written by experienced Cast Members and are very hard to find outside of the park.
This SOP handbook is 6 pages and includes a brief history of the development of the Enchanted Tiki Room, the Tiki Room Story, Facts and Figures, and the "live" narration for the host or hostess at the beginning of each show. This is a B/W photocopy, as were all of the copies made for training, on 8 1/2 x 11 white paper.
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>schedules. Bravo US is the one that cuts the movies to bits and adds >lots of commercials.
And registered a service mark in the phrase "world cinema" which they used to threaten my independent website (at the time called "World Cinema Review") with a law suit. Brief version of story at
http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/wcr.htm
LT
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There's a show on Chicago's public radio station called "The Annoying Music Show" (which sounds like a knockoff of Irwin Chusid's old "Atrocious Music show".)
They are selling a CD. From the show's website:
The Annoying Music Show! CD. To order call 888.590.OUCH.
Has anyone heard this CD, know what's on it, or can recommend for/against it??
Lou
lousmith@pipeline.com
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Too much on offer there. I haven't gotten past Sabah Habas Mustapha (younger brother of the 3 Mustaphas 3 clan)'s show. To find his show, go to URL above, click on "program", click on "SA" for Saturday, go down to 13:05 and click to listen to the RealPlayer audiostream.
If anyone can suggest other worthwhile programs at the site to listen to, I'll be much appreciative.
-Lou
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Hi, I'm taking a short trip to Montreal from 12/26 to 12/29, and would greatly appreciate record shop/general cool things advice. Please, please drop me an email before 1800 EST on Thursday if you have any tips for me.
thanks very much, Jonny
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Did anybody ever post info on the "Annoying Music" CD from out of Chicago? I e-mailed and received a form letter saying 80 percent is full songs but no indication of any performers or even styles.
LT
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